Beth Tweddle elected

@OfficialFIG:

Congrats to @bethtweddlenews (GBR) on being elected the athlete representative for Women’s Artistic

Elisabeth Tweddle MBE (GBR – 28 years), Alicia Sacramone (USA – 26 years) and Angelina Kysla (UKR – 22 years) were the candidates. All running to replace Nastia Liukin.

FIG by email:

In Men’s, we have new candidate Igor Radivilov (UKR – 21 years) and incumbent Jani Tanskanen (FIN – 38 years).

The Athletes’ Commission of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) counts 6 gymnasts, all of whom are elected by peers in their respective disciplines and who participate actively and with voting rights in Technical Committee activities.

For other Federation disciplines, Lioubov Charkashyna (BLR – 26 years) was elected at the Rhythmic worlds in Kiev (UKR), alongside Aldrin Rodriguez Garcia (MEX – 29 years) for Aerobic and Ayla Ahmadova (AZE – 28 years) for Acrobatic.

Finally, Trampoline will elect its own representative to the Commission in Sofia (BUL) this November. Today only one candidate has been registered, Nuno Merino from Portugal.